A Most F-----g Awesome Movie

mjshroomer · 09-14-07, 17:19

Okay, I got the drop on all of you.

Went to the 10 a.m. matinée, only $5.00.

Best f-----g $5.00 of the year I spent.

Read and go see it. I guarantee it will blow your mind:

Okay gang,

I just came from the movies.

I saw Across the Universe.

This is the movie with the Beatle songs, over 14 or more of them sung by the characters in the film, all who have names from the Beatles songs. Lucy, Maxwell, Jude, Prudence, Sadie, ETC. And they all sing these songs as well as if the Beatles their selves had performed them for the movie.

There are also surprise guests singers in the film, some named in the end credits and some not named, Bono, Joe Cocker and are named and I Eddie Izzard is Mr. Kite. I could be wrong on that one. Dr. John may also be in it singing one part of a song.

Dr Roberts character is in there, Vietnam, Strawberry logos rather than apple records. The induction scene of Lucy's brother maxwell is awesome cgi and live fx.

Dr. Geary's League of Spiritual Developers (Tim Leary's league of Spiritual Discovery). The Merry Pranksters, mention of jack Kourac, Martin Luther King's assassination, Students for a Democratic Society, Kent State, and even the Weathermen who end up blowing their selves up and a take off ont he Detropit riots during this turbulent period..

From England to Princeton to New York's psychedelic scene in the late 1960s and Pop-culture entourage and a black Jimi Hendrix guitar playing character vs [Sexy] Sadie who is reminiscent of Janis Joplin and sings basically John Lennon Protest kind of songs. And even a Yoko Ono Characterization..what they have done is taken 6 to 8 years of Beatle songs and combined them into a six-month to a year period

What is cool is the Evan Rachel Leigh singing and the lead who plays a boy named Jude from Liverpool and their relation ship with the girls brother and the other characters in the film. This is the most psychedelic film to ever come out, bypassing Tommy by Ken Russel.

I promise all who see it will have their minds blown.

The movie culminates its tale of this cultural time period with an on the roof concert of a couple of Beatle tunes with a sign outside the building of a red strawberry logo, similar to the "Let it Be" roof concert signaling the end of the Beatles group and the building for that concert had an Apple Records logo outside the building.

mjshroomer

You need to see this to believe it. Simply psychedelically marvelous.

And each song itself is a story video of what is going on in the film at the time the song is sung. It is the perfect movie high or not.

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God is a plant known as the earth

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Cast & Credits
Lucy Evan: Rachel Wood
Jude: Jim Sturgess
Max: Joe Anderson
Sadie: Dana Fuchs
Prudence: T.V. Carpio
Dr. Robert: Bono
Mr. Kite: Eddie Izzard
Jo-Jo: Martin Luther McCoy

Columbia/Revolution presents a film directed by Julie Taymor. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Running time: 133 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language).

Now here is the review by Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times who gives it an A. The Chicago Tribune also raved it. The E online said it is a flop. Obviously written by someone born i the late 1980s and was not a citizen of the 1960s.

Read below, Sept 13, 2007

Across the universe: 2 hours and12 minutes

Here is a bold, beautiful, visually enchanting musical where we walk into the theater humming the songs. Julie Taymor's "Across the Universe" is an audacious marriage of cutting-edge visual techniques, heart-warming performances, 1960s history and the Beatles songbook. Sounds like a concept that might be behind its time, but I believe in yesterday.

This isn't one of those druggy 1960s movies, although it has what the MPAA shyly calls "some" drug content. It's not grungy, although it has Joe Cocker in it. It's not political, which means it's political to its core. Most miraculous of all, it's not dated; the stories could be happening now, and in fact, they are.

For a film that is almost wall to wall with music, it has a full-bodied plot. The characters, mostly named after Beatles songs, include Lucy (the angelic Evan Rachel Wood), who moves from middle America to New York; Jude (Jim Sturgess), a Liverpool ship welder who works his way to New York on a ship, and Lucy's brother, Max (Joe Anderson), a college student who has dropped out (I guess). They now all share a pad in Greenwich Village with their musician friends, the Hendrixian Jo-Jo (Martin Luther McCoy), the Joplinesque Sadie (Dana Fuchs) and the lovelorn Prudence (T.V. Carpio), who has a thing for Max, although the curious cutting of one scene suggests she might have lesbian feelings as well.

Jude and Lucy fall in love, and they all go through a hippie period on Dr. Robert's Magic Bus, where the doctor (Bono) and his bus bear a striking resemblance to Ken Kesey's magical mystery tour. They also get guidance from Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), having been some days in preparation. But then things turn serious as Max goes off to Vietnam and the story gets swept up in the anti-war movement.

Yet when I say "story," don't start thinking about a lot of dialogue and plotting. Almost everything happens as an illustration to a Beatles song. The arrangements are sometimes familiar, sometimes radically altered, and the voices are all new; the actors either sing or sync, and often they find a mood in a song that we never knew was there before. When Prudence sings "I Want to Hold Your Hand," for example, I realized how wrong I was to ever think that was a happy song. It's not happy if it's a hand you are never, never, never going to hold.

Julie Taymor, famous as the director of "The Lion King" on Broadway, is a generously inventive choreographer, such as in a basic-training scene where all the drill sergeants look like G.I. Joe; a sequence where inductees in Jockey shorts carry the Statue of Liberty through a Vietnam field, and cross-cutting between dancing to Beatles clone bands at an American high school prom and in a Liverpool dive bar. There are underwater sequences which approach ballet, a stage performance that turns into musical warfare, strawberries that bleed, rooftop concerts and a montage combining crashing waves with the Detroit riots.

But all I'm doing here is list-making. The beauty is in the execution. The experience of the movie is joyous. I don't even want to know about anybody who complains they aren't hearing "the real Beatles." Fred Astaire wasn't Cole Porter, either. These songs are now more than 40 years old, some of them, and are timeless, and hearing these unexpected talents singing them (yes, and Bono, Izzard and Cocker, too) only underlines their astonishing quality.

You weren't alive in the 1960s? Or the '70s or '80s? You're like the guy on the IMDb message board who thought the band was named the "Beetles," and didn't even get it when people made Volkswagen jokes because he hadn't heard of VW Beetles, either. All is forgiven. Jay Leno has a Jaywalking spot for you. Just about anybody else is likely to enjoy "Across the Universe."

I'm sure there were executives who thought it was suicidal to set a "Beatles musical" in the "Vietnam era." But this is a movie that fires its songs like flowers at the way we live now. It's the kind of movie you watch again, like listening to a favorite album. It was scheduled for the Toronto Film Festival but was previewed (as several Toronto films were) for critics in major cities. I was drowning in movies and deadlines, and this was the only one I went to see twice. Now do your homework and rent the DVD of "A Hard Day's Night" if you've never seen it. The thought that there are readers who would get this far in this review of this film and never have seen that film is unbearably sad. Cheer me up. Don't let me down (repeat three times).

weepwoop · 09-14-07, 18:08

Dont know if I am buzzed or what but I cant find it in my town maybe soon I hope

roc · 09-14-07, 18:26

I can't wait to see this one... Thanks for the tip!

mjshroomer · 09-14-07, 18:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by weepwoop

Dont know if I am buzzed or what but I cant find it in my town maybe soon I hope

From what I heard it is a pre-release and in only 25 theaters in the USA.

Forgot to mention that. i am not sure when the national release date is set for. This film is awesome.
as I said in the title of the thread.

mjshroomer

roc · 09-14-07, 20:09

I remember tripping HARD at the release of Yellow Submarine!
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, ...
I felt I was in the sub guys...

white tablet form of lsd25 if I recall!

pareil · 09-14-07, 20:29

roc do you think that's how it was meant to be seen?
i stopped tripping for movies after the matrix
...or was it fantasia?

across the universe is scheduled for nationwide release on sept 21
and i don't think i can wait for dvd on this one.
thanks for the heads up, mj

roc · 09-14-07, 21:43

Hell yes!

I think I'll take old brown sanchez out to the movies!

camo · 09-14-07, 22:26

sounds like a digity dank movie..cant wait to get off my over worked butt and see this movie..trippin for me well ill do that outside at best...i like to sit and watch my movies iin the theater..no way could i dose at the movies...no way. trippin that is...camo does not walk in movie theaters

jt007m · 09-14-07, 22:29

I've been looking forward to seeing this movie since the beginning on the year... I'm so excited it's finally here!

Ras Asad · 09-15-07, 00:44

you rock MJ!!!

PsychoDrogue · 09-15-07, 09:49

i wonder if it'll be shown in any IMAX theaters. theres one 2 blocks from my house and i'd love to see it there

MrMycelium · 09-15-07, 10:10

The mrs. and I and a 1/2 of little buddys are going tonight. Cant wait, I heard it was better than The Wall.

mjshroomer · 09-15-07, 10:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMycelium

The mrs. and I and a 1/2 of little buddys are going tonight. Cant wait, I heard it was better than The Wall.

The wall is a little confusing but was trippy, but Across the Universe is even trippier. Especially if you lived through those times.

As Roger Ebert implied, the Beatles music is like, forever.

For those who cannot this film playing in their own towns, ca see it when it opens nationwide on Sept 21.

AS for the Boston Globes rude comments in their review and the stupid E Online review. I doubt they were alive during the time this film takes place. And I love the version of I want to Hold your hand sung by T.V. (thats her real name) but was known as Prudence in the film.

A somewhat Lesbian thoughts between her and Lucy were edited out of the movie a the last minute before release..

When the DVD comes out, I hope they have an extended version.

mjshroomer

Today I will spend a few hours playing Beatle songs on my Key board and on my guitar. With my rare hundred dollar Beatle hardbound deluxe edition songbook

I love this movie.

As I said, I await your comments after seeing it.

rockawayrooms · 09-15-07, 10:54

Can't wait to see this,THX mj!!

roc · 09-15-07, 14:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by camo

sounds like a digity dank movie..cant wait to get off my over worked butt and see this movie..trippin for me well ill do that outside at best...i like to sit and watch my movies iin the theater..no way could i dose at the movies...no way. trippin that is...camo does not walk in movie theaters

Ah the movie ain't bad it's getting down the isle after it's over amongst all those strange lookin folks!
I always see some alien eyed dude there when the light come on...

roc · 09-15-07, 22:04

mj I been searching this one out and it does look awesome...

mycot · 09-25-07, 21:55

You certainly have got the drop on us here MJ.

Thanks.

suckerfree · 09-25-07, 23:22

Across the Universe trailer

I've been wanting to see this movie, glad it's getting some good feedback.

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09-14-07, 17:19	#1 (permalink)
mjshroomer Mycotopiate Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,227	A Most F-----g Awesome Movie Okay, I got the drop on all of you. Went to the 10 a.m. matinée, only $5.00. Best f-----g $5.00 of the year I spent. Read and go see it. I guarantee it will blow your mind: Okay gang, I just came from the movies. I saw Across the Universe. This is the movie with the Beatle songs, over 14 or more of them sung by the characters in the film, all who have names from the Beatles songs. Lucy, Maxwell, Jude, Prudence, Sadie, ETC. And they all sing these songs as well as if the Beatles their selves had performed them for the movie. There are also surprise guests singers in the film, some named in the end credits and some not named, Bono, Joe Cocker and are named and I Eddie Izzard is Mr. Kite. I could be wrong on that one. Dr. John may also be in it singing one part of a song. Dr Roberts character is in there, Vietnam, Strawberry logos rather than apple records. The induction scene of Lucy's brother maxwell is awesome cgi and live fx. Dr. Geary's League of Spiritual Developers (Tim Leary's league of Spiritual Discovery). The Merry Pranksters, mention of jack Kourac, Martin Luther King's assassination, Students for a Democratic Society, Kent State, and even the Weathermen who end up blowing their selves up and a take off ont he Detropit riots during this turbulent period.. From England to Princeton to New York's psychedelic scene in the late 1960s and Pop-culture entourage and a black Jimi Hendrix guitar playing character vs [Sexy] Sadie who is reminiscent of Janis Joplin and sings basically John Lennon Protest kind of songs. And even a Yoko Ono Characterization..what they have done is taken 6 to 8 years of Beatle songs and combined them into a six-month to a year period What is cool is the Evan Rachel Leigh singing and the lead who plays a boy named Jude from Liverpool and their relation ship with the girls brother and the other characters in the film. This is the most psychedelic film to ever come out, bypassing Tommy by Ken Russel. I promise all who see it will have their minds blown. The movie culminates its tale of this cultural time period with an on the roof concert of a couple of Beatle tunes with a sign outside the building of a red strawberry logo, similar to the "Let it Be" roof concert signaling the end of the Beatles group and the building for that concert had an Apple Records logo outside the building. mjshroomer You need to see this to believe it. Simply psychedelically marvelous. And each song itself is a story video of what is going on in the film at the time the song is sung. It is the perfect movie high or not. -------------------- God is a plant known as the earth XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Cast & Credits Lucy Evan: Rachel Wood Jude: Jim Sturgess Max: Joe Anderson Sadie: Dana Fuchs Prudence: T.V. Carpio Dr. Robert: Bono Mr. Kite: Eddie Izzard Jo-Jo: Martin Luther McCoy Columbia/Revolution presents a film directed by Julie Taymor. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Running time: 133 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language). Now here is the review by Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times who gives it an A. The Chicago Tribune also raved it. The E online said it is a flop. Obviously written by someone born i the late 1980s and was not a citizen of the 1960s. Read below, Sept 13, 2007 Across the universe: 2 hours and12 minutes Here is a bold, beautiful, visually enchanting musical where we walk into the theater humming the songs. Julie Taymor's "Across the Universe" is an audacious marriage of cutting-edge visual techniques, heart-warming performances, 1960s history and the Beatles songbook. Sounds like a concept that might be behind its time, but I believe in yesterday. This isn't one of those druggy 1960s movies, although it has what the MPAA shyly calls "some" drug content. It's not grungy, although it has Joe Cocker in it. It's not political, which means it's political to its core. Most miraculous of all, it's not dated; the stories could be happening now, and in fact, they are. For a film that is almost wall to wall with music, it has a full-bodied plot. The characters, mostly named after Beatles songs, include Lucy (the angelic Evan Rachel Wood), who moves from middle America to New York; Jude (Jim Sturgess), a Liverpool ship welder who works his way to New York on a ship, and Lucy's brother, Max (Joe Anderson), a college student who has dropped out (I guess). They now all share a pad in Greenwich Village with their musician friends, the Hendrixian Jo-Jo (Martin Luther McCoy), the Joplinesque Sadie (Dana Fuchs) and the lovelorn Prudence (T.V. Carpio), who has a thing for Max, although the curious cutting of one scene suggests she might have lesbian feelings as well. Jude and Lucy fall in love, and they all go through a hippie period on Dr. Robert's Magic Bus, where the doctor (Bono) and his bus bear a striking resemblance to Ken Kesey's magical mystery tour. They also get guidance from Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), having been some days in preparation. But then things turn serious as Max goes off to Vietnam and the story gets swept up in the anti-war movement. Yet when I say "story," don't start thinking about a lot of dialogue and plotting. Almost everything happens as an illustration to a Beatles song. The arrangements are sometimes familiar, sometimes radically altered, and the voices are all new; the actors either sing or sync, and often they find a mood in a song that we never knew was there before. When Prudence sings "I Want to Hold Your Hand," for example, I realized how wrong I was to ever think that was a happy song. It's not happy if it's a hand you are never, never, never going to hold. Julie Taymor, famous as the director of "The Lion King" on Broadway, is a generously inventive choreographer, such as in a basic-training scene where all the drill sergeants look like G.I. Joe; a sequence where inductees in Jockey shorts carry the Statue of Liberty through a Vietnam field, and cross-cutting between dancing to Beatles clone bands at an American high school prom and in a Liverpool dive bar. There are underwater sequences which approach ballet, a stage performance that turns into musical warfare, strawberries that bleed, rooftop concerts and a montage combining crashing waves with the Detroit riots. But all I'm doing here is list-making. The beauty is in the execution. The experience of the movie is joyous. I don't even want to know about anybody who complains they aren't hearing "the real Beatles." Fred Astaire wasn't Cole Porter, either. These songs are now more than 40 years old, some of them, and are timeless, and hearing these unexpected talents singing them (yes, and Bono, Izzard and Cocker, too) only underlines their astonishing quality. You weren't alive in the 1960s? Or the '70s or '80s? You're like the guy on the IMDb message board who thought the band was named the "Beetles," and didn't even get it when people made Volkswagen jokes because he hadn't heard of VW Beetles, either. All is forgiven. Jay Leno has a Jaywalking spot for you. Just about anybody else is likely to enjoy "Across the Universe." I'm sure there were executives who thought it was suicidal to set a "Beatles musical" in the "Vietnam era." But this is a movie that fires its songs like flowers at the way we live now. It's the kind of movie you watch again, like listening to a favorite album. It was scheduled for the Toronto Film Festival but was previewed (as several Toronto films were) for critics in major cities. I was drowning in movies and deadlines, and this was the only one I went to see twice. Now do your homework and rent the DVD of "A Hard Day's Night" if you've never seen it. The thought that there are readers who would get this far in this review of this film and never have seen that film is unbearably sad. Cheer me up. Don't let me down (repeat three times). Last edited by mjshroomer : 09-14-07 at 18:55. Reason: Intentional rewrite and additional text to embellih this tale

09-14-07, 18:08	#2 (permalink)
weepwoop Former Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 62	Cant find it in my town Dont know if I am buzzed or what but I cant find it in my town maybe soon I hope

09-14-07, 18:26	#3 (permalink)
roc Old Man Join Date: Mar 1970 Posts: 2,791	I can't wait to see this one... Thanks for the tip! __________________ ubuntu! Member of Native Geekaho Tribe. "Think for yourself and question authority"

09-14-07, 20:09	#5 (permalink)
roc Old Man Join Date: Mar 1970 Posts: 2,791	I remember tripping HARD at the release of Yellow Submarine! We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, ... I felt I was in the sub guys... white tablet form of lsd25 if I recall! __________________ ubuntu! Member of Native Geekaho Tribe. "Think for yourself and question authority"

09-14-07, 20:29	#6 (permalink)
pareil happy just to be here Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 270	roc do you think that's how it was meant to be seen? i stopped tripping for movies after the matrix ...or was it fantasia? across the universe is scheduled for nationwide release on sept 21 and i don't think i can wait for dvd on this one. thanks for the heads up, mj __________________ the word is not the thing

09-14-07, 21:43	#7 (permalink)
roc Old Man Join Date: Mar 1970 Posts: 2,791	Hell yes! I think I'll take old brown sanchez out to the movies! __________________ ubuntu! Member of Native Geekaho Tribe. "Think for yourself and question authority"

09-14-07, 22:26	#8 (permalink)
camo kombucha mushroom people Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 61	sounds like a digity dank movie..cant wait to get off my over worked butt and see this movie..trippin for me well ill do that outside at best...i like to sit and watch my movies iin the theater..no way could i dose at the movies...no way. trippin that is...camo does not walk in movie theaters

09-14-07, 22:29	#9 (permalink)
jt007m Sexy Flip/Spic/Chink Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 226	I've been looking forward to seeing this movie since the beginning on the year... I'm so excited it's finally here!

09-15-07, 00:44	#10 (permalink)
Ras Asad Khenmes Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,871	you rock MJ!!! __________________ - Xa Ta Zac Xa Ta Amac -

09-15-07, 09:49	#11 (permalink)
PsychoDrogue Mycotopiate Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 973	i wonder if it'll be shown in any IMAX theaters. theres one 2 blocks from my house and i'd love to see it there

09-15-07, 10:10	#12 (permalink)
MrMycelium Breeder of Fungus Gnats Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 973	The mrs. and I and a 1/2 of little buddys are going tonight. Cant wait, I heard it was better than The Wall. __________________ Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.

09-15-07, 10:54	#14 (permalink)
rockawayrooms Hash Pipe Harry Join Date: Dec 1971 Posts: 2,049	Can't wait to see this,THX mj!! __________________ Any little song that you know, Everything that's small has to grow!!L.Zep

09-15-07, 22:04	#16 (permalink)
roc Old Man Join Date: Mar 1970 Posts: 2,791	mj I been searching this one out and it does look awesome... Attached Thumbnails __________________ ubuntu! Member of Native Geekaho Tribe. "Think for yourself and question authority"

09-25-07, 21:55	#17 (permalink)
mycot Mycotopiate Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 252	You certainly have got the drop on us here MJ. Thanks.

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